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Hereford, Texas "TOWN WITHOUT A TOOTHACHE" A water supply chock-full of natural fluoride means tooth decay is rare here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation of Sloganeers | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Conditions in Zimbabwe have been desperate for three years or more. The closing of the Daily News deepens the discouragement of many Zimbabweans who are still campaigning for a better future, political freedom and sanity amid the decay of all of their institutions that were once strong and secure...

Author: By Robert I. Rotberg, | Title: Mugabe Strangles His Nation | 9/23/2003 | See Source »

...interior of Bom Jesus is folkish and crudely executed compared with its European prototypes, but the big draw is St. Francis' body, exhibited every 10 years and long held to be miraculously immune from decay. Judging by his partially exposed skull and missing parts, he may have finally succumbed, however. The next showing is scheduled for November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Hot Spot | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...what is already known. In addition to learning “ways of knowing” in specific fields, students should also learn to identify what they do not know. Rarely will students come across professors or others dwelling on the great unsolved mysteries of Romantic poetry, urban decay or immunology. In some ways, the unwillingness to think at length about the largest, most difficult areas of ignorance is understandable. Knowledge usually moves forward in small steps, and this reality means students see only the smallest, most tractable problems. The great questions of most areas of inquiry remain hidden...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Teach Ignorance, Too | 5/9/2003 | See Source »

...part of its series “Real/Reel: The Fashioning of Reality.” Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter star in this 1999 film based on the best-selling novel by Chuck Palahniuk that acts as a modern-day morality tale warning of the decay of society. It tells of one man’s (Norton) life full of single serving dinners, cheap furniture catalogs and self-help meetings for illnesses he doesn’t have. He finds salvation in his new friend Tyler Durden (Pitt) and the founding of a fight club that soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 18-24 | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

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